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Consider becoming a <a href="https://vufind.org/donate">financial supporter</a>. Your support helps build a better VuFind庐! </p> </div>  <div class="body"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-6 prose"> <h1>About VuFind庐</h1> <p> VuFind庐 is a discovery system designed and developed for libraries by libraries. It is also flexible enough to build search interfaces for all kinds of content beyond the library environment. The goal of VuFind庐 is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your resources in a single consistent and user-friendly interface. Content could include: </p> <ul> <li>Catalog records</li> <li>Institutional repository content</li> <li>Open access journal articles</li> <li>Digitized library materials</li> <li>Websites</li> <li>Items available for interlibrary loan</li> <li>Licensed content (where supported by providers)</li> <li>Other collections and resources — just add metadata!</li> </ul> <p> VuFind庐 is completely modular and includes tools to support a wide range of use cases, from a basic Library catalog search to a sophisticated dashboard of data from many sources. It supports building a local index and/or integrating with a variety of existing third-party services. Since it's <a href="https://github.com/vufind-org/">open source</a>, you can modify or add modules to best fit your needs. A wide range of configurable options allow extensive customization without changing any code. An active and friendly international <a href="https://vufind.org/wiki/community">community</a> and a variety of <a href="https://vufind.org/vufind/support.html">commercial service providers</a> mean that you can get support when you need it. </p> <h2>Powerful and Flexible Search Capabilities</h2> VuFind庐's search index runs on Apache Solr, an open source search engine, offering amazing performance and scalability. It has the ability to be distributed if you need to spread the load of the catalog over many servers or in a cloud environment. If you don't need to run your own local index, or if you want to complement it with third-party content, VuFind庐 can also talk to <a href="https://vufind.org/wiki/configuration:third-party_content">a variety of other tools and services</a>. <h2>Open Licensing</h2> VuFind庐 is offered for free through the GPL open source license. This means that you can use the software for free. You can modify the software and share your successes with the community! </div> <div class="col-sm-6"> <img src="/vufind/assets/images/magnify.png"/> <h2>VuFind庐 in Action</h2> <p>Take a look at our <a href="https://vufind.org/wiki/community:installations">VuFind庐 Installations Wiki page</a> to see how a variety of organizations have taken advantage of VuFind庐's flexibility. If you are already using VuFind庐, tell us about it through our <a href="https://vufind.org/advanced_demo/Feedback/Form/InstallationReport">Installation Report form</a>.</p> <h2>Active Community</h2> <p>VuFind庐 is maintained by an international community of developers. Libraries around the world customize and improve VuFind庐, contributing those improvements back to project to be shared by all.</p> <h3>Project Statistics Courtesy of OpenHub</h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openhub.net/p/10977/widgets/project_factoids_stats.js"></script> <h2>Praise for VuFind庐</h2> <quote> <b>"This completely rules, as you kids say."</b> <span>Peter Ivanick, Drexel University</span> </quote> <quote> <b>"I love the 'text this' option in the catalog. It saves paper, I don't have to find the scrap of paper I wrote on, and I don't have to wonder if I transposed the call number. (I just have to have my cell phone with me!) This is a great feature."</b> <span>Student, Villanova University</span> </quote> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="flex w-content nowrap"> <div class="flex-1"> <a href="https://vufind.org/wiki/changelog">Release Schedule</a> </div> <div class="flex-1"> <a href="https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind">GitHub</a> </div> </div> <p class="footer__statement"> VuFind庐 is developed and maintained by an <a href="https://vufind.org/wiki/community">international community of contributors</a> with support from the <a href="https://openlibraryfoundation.org/">Open Library Foundation</a> and the generous <a href="https://vufind.org/wiki/community:membership_levels_and_benefits">sponsors</a> below. </p> <div class="footer__sponsors"> <div class="flex-1"> <a class="footer__sponsor-link" href="https://library.villanova.edu"> <img class="footer__sponsor-img" src="/vufind/assets/images/sponsors/VU508Black.webp" alt="Falvey Library, Villanova University" > </a> </div> <div class="flex-1"> <a class="footer__sponsor-link" href="https://www.hebis.de/"> <img class="footer__sponsor-img" src="/vufind/assets/images/sponsors/hebis-de.svg" alt="hebis.de" > </a> </div> <div class="flex-1"> <a class="footer__sponsor-link" href="https://lts.lehigh.edu/"> <img class="footer__sponsor-img" src="/vufind/assets/images/sponsors/lehigh-lts.svg" alt="Lehigh University Library" > </a> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <script type="text/javascript"> var _paq = window._paq = window._paq || []; /* tracker methods like "setCustomDimension" should be called before "trackPageView" */ _paq.push(['trackPageView']); _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']); (function() { var u="https://morpheus.library.villanova.edu/piwik/"; _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'matomo.php']); _paq.push(['setSiteId', '12']); var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; g.type='text/javascript'; g.async=true; g.src=u+'matomo.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s); })(); </script>  </body> </html>

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